Job Summary

The successful candidate will play an important role in the development of multiple highly visible deliveries with the primary responsibilities around development activities. The candidate will be expected to take ownership, responsibility and accountability for deliveries. The candidate will work closely with the other team members and stakeholders to design and implement strategic solutions. The candidate is expected to work in a dynamic global team with developers, project managers, business stakeholders and other technical experts across multiple locations.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Develop new and improve existing functionality.
• Understand and improve if required whole process from requirements gathering to release production release.

Regulatory & Business Conduct

• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct. 
• Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters. 
• Lead to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles

Skills and Experience

General Skills:

• Experienced developers with previous experience in the end-to-end design, development and support of large scale data processing systems.
• Familiarity and confidence working in an agile development environment.
• Familiarity with CI/CD and devops.
• Self-starter who can drive/facilitate requirements and development effort with the business.

Technical Knowledge 

• Java (essential), Multi-Threading is essential.
• Any experience with technologies such as Kafka, ElasticSearch or Postgres is a plus.
• Scripting programming in Linux shell, Python is a plus.
• Development experience on functional language, such as Haskell, is a plus.

Our Ideal Candidate

• Java
• Multi-Threading and Performance tuning in JVM
• Java Restful API design and development
• K8S and Docker

Qualifications

• Masters or Bachelors Degree in Computers/IT/Engineering preferred.

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together we:

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What we offer

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.